Re: [Marxism] Bush and Algeria

["Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My observations:

The Battle of Algiers rages on

I've written about the movie, The Battle of Algiers; today, CNN is reporting 
that George Bush is reading a book on the subject (A Savage War of Peace: 
Algeria, 1954-1962) for lessons on what to do in Iraq. In closing out the 
piece, both the author and the reporter cautioned the viewer that after the 
French decided to pull out, tens of thousands of people were killed in the 
civil war which followed. According to Wikipedia, that's true enough. What 
CNN failed to inform its viewers, though, was that before the pullout, while 
the French were still fighting the Algerians, between 300,000 and 1 million 
Algerians are estimated to have died. Very much shades of Iraq.

In Iraq as in Algeria, it's unlikely that a pullout of foreign forces will 
end all killing immediately. But, if the Algerian example is any guide, 
there will be far fewer people killed after a pullout than would have been 
killed had a pullout not happened. Think that's the message Bush will get? 
No, me neither. And the viewers of CNN won't get that message either, not 
having heard the full story.

Links in the original here:
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_lefti_archive.html#116890738026256717




Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com

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